Andrea Asuaje (COM’17) was in the crowd at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia Monday evening, the first night of the Democratic National Convention, reporting for the Boston University News Service as protesters, many of them Bernie Sanders supporters, loudly booed speakers like Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. When First Lady Michelle Obama came to the… Read More
WTBU was the first radio station to hire host Howard Stern, and last month, Stern (CGS’74, COM’76) reciprocated by welcoming the station’s current e-board to his New York City studios for a visit. The group met the host of the eponymousHoward Stern Show and toured his studios and the entire SiriusXM complex, looking for ideas about how… Read More
Alumna Andrea Taylor (’68) challenged Boston University’s College of Communication Class of 2016 to look way in the future and decide what they want their legacy to be. A BU trustee and president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Taylor spoke at the school’s undergraduate Convocation on May 13. “Today…we gaze into a… Read More
College Factual analyzed colleges across the country and found the 10 best schools from which to receive your bachelor’s in journalism. COM made the top five. According to USA TODAY, “BU allows students to specialize within the journalism major, offering focus areas in broadcast journalism, magazine journalism, online journalism and straight journalism. The University also… Read More
For an article about 2016’s best and worst cities for basketball fans, WalletHub turned to journalism professor Frank Shorr, who is also the director of The Sports Institute at Boston University. Do you think the NBA or the NFL has a better chance of successfully adding a European franchise? I think the NFL has already… Read More
Lecturer Greg Marinovich leads a walkabout with his advanced photojournalism class, giving the students the opportunity to learn more about street photography from the Pulitzer Prize winner. The intensive course is designed to give students the skills necessary to produce professional quality work meeting publication standards, with emphasis on storytelling in the visual medium. Weekly… Read More
Compared to their peers across the world, American sports journalists have always enjoyed privileged—often guaranteed—access to the athletes they cover. The locker room interview, where players chat with reporters before or after stripping for the showers, is a peculiarly American phenomenon. Once upon a time, journalists even had an official role on the baseball field:… Read More
Document absence: This was Pankaj Khadka’s (’16) challenge as a photojournalist in Nepal in summer 2015. He was in his home country to report on the impact of mass migration of male teens and adults from their villages for employment. Since the 1990s — a decade that saw an end to Nepal’s monarchy and its… Read More
For this COM journalism minor, studying abroad meant more than just scenic photos and amazing food. Johanna Gruber (CAS ’17) recently had the opportunity to meet Alfie Allen, the actor who plays Theon Greyjoy on “Game of Thrones” while completing an internship with Empire Magazine during her time studying abroad in Sydney. The Sydney Internship… Read More
Monday was a good day for three COM alumni, who took each home the most celebrated award in journalism — the Pulitzer prize. Jessica Rinaldi (’01) of the Boston Globe won the feature photography prize for “The Life and Times of Strider Wolf,” a kindergartner born to poverty in rural Maine and nearly beaten to… Read More